related works
Transparent Waves : for two pianos and two percussionists / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2pf 2perc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 2130 2100 timp perc cel hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 4331 timp perc cel 2hp str(18.16.16.12.8.)
Träume : for mezzo-soprano and orchestra / Bram Van Camp; text Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Storm
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
mezzosopr 2fl/picc 2ob/eh 2cl/cl-b 3fg/cfg 4h 2tpt 3trb tb timp perc hp cel str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans